Headlines

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Headlines
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Things to consider

• Avoid Editorializing or adding your opinion
• Make the mood of the headline fit the mood of the
  story
• Say something important-avoid labels
• Say what you mean to say (clarity)
• Write for specifics

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Things to consider

• Present tense in used in Yearbook
• Present or future tense for Newspaper
• Headline should include a subject and a predicate
• Hint at the storys content

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Things to Avoid

• Abbreviations the majority of people dont know
• Using space fillers, such as a, and , the. It is
  okay to write headlines as incomplete sentences
• Do not begin with a verb
• Do not hyphenate words between lines